April 6th marks the 20th anniversary of the Bosnian war, which broke out following the recognition of the independent state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. More than 100,000 people died in the inter-ethnic conflict, which lasted from 1992 to 1995. Nearly half of Bosnia’s pre-war population of 4.3 million fled their homes during the war.

Looking from the Croatian side of the river Sava in 1992, we knew it was just a matter of time until the war would jump the river into Bosnia, just as it had, almost a year earlier, spread like a forest fire from Slovenia to Croatia. The former republics of Yugoslavia were lighting aflame like […]

Shaun Arntsen, 35 and working in Alberta’s oil and gas industry, has tattoos, shaggy hair and veteran’s licence plates. He is often complimented on his grandfather’s car. “I get that all the time: You can’t be a veteran, veterans are in their 70s,” said Mr. Arntsen, a veteran of Canada’s first tour of Afghanistan. “Am […]

By Damir Sagolj THE HAGUE — The road for former Yugoslavia’s war criminals ends here, at “The Hague Hilton.” In this section of the international war crimes detention centre in Scheveningen, 40 or so accused by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia live in remarkable harmony and comfort awaiting trial or sentencing. I […]

At 12:04 a.m. on Oct. 12, 1999, Adnan Nevic was born in a hospital in Sarajevo. The first child of Jasmin and Fatima was welcomed by camera flashes and the title of being the six-billionth person on the planet. The swaddled infant rested in the pinstriped embrace of Kofi Annan, then-UN secretary-general, who posed with […]